date: 25 november
event: nanyang girls' high school open house.
went to school at 7.45 today. thought had to reach school by 8.45, but sylvia told the band had to assemble by 8.40 instead.
i was seconds to being late.
jasmine was late though. both of us didnt noe cos we left band early yesterday.
anyway, we carried our stands and our scores and our instruments down to outside the GO.
we were performing outside the gerneral office. *gasps*
then me and jasmine had to take the lift. TSK. double bass mah. and we decided to help percussion also. cos we were from percussion! haha. so we knew how to carry stuff. haha. so we helped!
and since our school only had ONE lift, we had to wait for that ONE lift. and for more than 15 MINS, the CO occupied the lift and we were left to wait there outside the lift with all the percussion stuff and our basses.
PERCUSSION ONLY GOT 3 PEOPLE CAN?
sec 2s percussion all not here, lorraine had gastric, jannable go disneyland, aiwen was nowhere to be seen, so they all left poor christal, andrea and xinyi there.
then when we finally got to use the lift, me and jasmine went down first, then went back up to help the percussion. then me, andrea and xinyi were left there outside the lift to shift in 3 big timpanies. gaaaaaah. jasmine lah! nvr come and help! then christal and sylvia were in the lift to shift the timpanies
out of the lift. then in the end, i had to "drag" the largest timpani from the lift to outside the G.O. sigh. why all the sec 2s had to choose this time to go overseas? then, i met jasmine downstairs and she went to carry the other timpani outside the lift.
andrea very funny. she sent the 2 timpanies down with xinyi alone in the lift, thinking that there would be people to help her. but guo ying came up afterwards, saying that there was no one downstairs, and andrea started banging on the door of the lift, saying: "xinyi! quick open up! i want to save you!"
so i went down by the stairs instead.
mr lee (one of our conductor) was said not to be here until afternoon, so sylvia conducted instead. had some problems with following her conducting at first, but was ok afterwards. played festivo, raycharles and some other songs. rested in between the songs of course, or you can say, slacked. it was rather boring, to be sitting there, playing stuff yourself, or else sitting down and staring at the people walking past whilst they stared back at you.
and there was another problem. both jasmine's and my bows had problems. or was it the strings? cos we couldnt bow properly, and that resulted in no grip which meant no sound came out from the strings. jasmine suspected it was due to the melted rosin we used. let's go buy a new rosin.
jasmine wanted mrs wong to buy a new bow. (we had 3 bows already. and the 3rd bow had problems too. either too much, or too little rosin.)
so what was the point of us doing there, when we couldnt produce a single sound?
ok, we could produce high sounds, but not the lower ones. higher ones are easier to produce.
so we just bowed and cared less. why did eugenia not be here?
o ya. i think it all started with the horns and trumpets. they started playing persis. they, referring to the sec 3s of trumpets, and sec 2s of horns, were playing persis and the trombones and christal began to play with them too. it was quite nice, though without the full band playing, it sounded wonderful. i was just savouring every moment of it.
then ms chong came and conducted us for some songs.
time crawled by that morning. by the time ms chong annouced lunch, i was wiped out. my back muscles ached more than even and my wrist was hurting. that was when i found out i had developed hard skin on the underside of my right thumb. due to overuse of that area of skin. sigh.
but lunch wasnt all set for us either.
the day before, jac had told us to bring our own food for lunch as the school had not enough food. and i remembered sylvia saying: "huh? not enough food? 那么穷 arh? ok. so you guys just bring your own food ok?"
i was trying to suppress my laughter.
but little did we expect to have only 20 packets of food when there's about 60 over people in band.
and wat was in the packet?
a fishball, a piece of pizza bread, and a slice of suger roll.
we couldnt even share it together, or at least as a section, so some of us skipped lunch.
then jasmine, cheryl, jacey and me walked around until we finally found the trombone people. jo, valerie, ziyan, yun jia, and samantha. sam seemed bored, but the others (sec 1s de) were playing tricks. then jasmine suggested to say jokes while i shoutd: "ghost stories!!!!!" haha. so jasmine decided on ghost stories. and jo and me were saying alot of them. then jasmine kept scarying us. stupid jasmine. keep freaking us out. then we went downstairs thinking it was time to go back when jiaying appeared. then she said: "why ya'll going back, havent time yet. then we all gathered around in a big circle in the middle of the pathway outside the GO leading to the canteen(standing not sitting) and listened to jo's ghost story. jiaying kept freaking us, and jasmine kept shouting for no reason. tsk. then i was like: "why we so stupid stand there block the way for wat, sit at the benches lah!" then we sat, and jasmine said, "it;s 1.01 now."
then i froze. i was supposed to report at 1 for psgl duty.
so i excused myself and ran. but i passed the g.o., i saw the band already getting ready, so i went back to jasmine and the group and practically shouted, :"OOI! HAVE TO GO BACK ALREADY!!!"
and we ran back.
haha that was the fun part.
then i ran to the audi, as i had to report to the stand outside audi.
melissa told me to be there by 12.40. it was already 1.02. wat the.
but i wasnt late. there was no breifing at all, and all we had to do was to wait for the parents to come out from the audi at 1.30 as mrs chek was giving a talk.
1.00 my foot. that was wat they put in the email sent to us.
anyway, we sat outide the audi, waiting for time to crawl by. bailu kept complaining to ms teo that she was bored and ms teo said that to be a psgl one had to keep themselves occupied.
so we tried. we talked about to kill a mockingbird. (pssst! i havent read it.)
but i got some tips on what it roughly was about and had a better chance of understanding.
then the parents came out and me and another girl went to tour-lead some groups.
at first it was freaky, but soon after, the people seemed nice and we started to relax. we mostly talked and interacted with the people more then just bringing them here and there.
note to self: never let the opposite side ask questions alone. try to ask them some questions to understand their background. this will let the opposite side feel more welcomed. and
interact more.and ya. we lead two familes, and i lead one last one myself cos my partner had to leave early. it wasnt very scary, but it was
tiring. was supposed to go home with jasmine
, but she went to coro with jiaying instead. -cries- then i went home alone. sorta slept on the bus. cos i was TIRED. sigh.
-end of story-
stupid beishan and angie didnt come! joel didnt come either. STUPID LAH. nvr come.
